I don't agree. From my civil servant days there were roughly three types of minister: - those who were experienced in their subject, knew what they wanted to do and set about doing it. These wer… (View Post)

That's certainly a danger. But ignoring Ukraine's genuine difficulties risks giving the West a pass for its increasingly slow, late and miserly deliveries of weapons to the heroic Ukrainian… (View Post)

I have a strong suspicion that Labour in general, and Starmer in particular, will in three years or so be looking back on their time in Opposition as a golden age. There will be no money for them to … (View Post)

You'd almost think that stealing people's grandparents' land during a war, illegally refusing to let them return, walling them up in ghettos that get smaller every year, blockading the… (View Post)

Even at the time, pillaging across Europe and soaking it in blood for fifteen years was somewhat frowned upon. (View Post)